News tagged with hereditary material

FANCM plays key role in inheritance

Scientists of KIT and the University of Birmingham have identified relevant new functions of a gene that plays a crucial role in Fanconi anemia, a life-threatening disease.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New avocado rootstocks are high-performing and disease-tolerant

Avocado, a significant fruit crop grown in many tropical and subtropical parts of the world, is threatened by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), a disease that has already eliminated commercial avocado production ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The turn of the corkscrew: Structural analysis uncovers mechanisms of gene expression

The diverse functions of living cells are all based on the information encoded in the structure of the hereditary material DNA. Gene expression must therefore be tightly controlled, and this task is accomplished by the binding ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New technique could eliminate inherited mitochondrial disease

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed an experimental technique with the potential to prevent a class of hereditary disorders passed on from mother to child. The technique, as yet conducted ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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New study finds earliest evidence yet of differential access to land

Hereditary inequality began over 7,000 years ago in the early Neolithic era, with new evidence showing that farmers buried with tools had access to better land than those buried without.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The developing genome? More than just packaging, the genome affects the way our genes change and develop

Since Charles Darwin first put forth the theory of evolution, scientists have been trying to unlock the mysteries of genetics. But research on the genome — the organism's entire hereditary package encoded in DNA and ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Backing out of the nanotunnel: New method for nucleic acid analysis

Nanopores provide a versatile tool for probing molecular structures. A new German study shows that one can obtain more detailed information about the dynamic behavior of nucleic acids during passage through nanopores by directing ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When plants go polyploid

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant lineages with multiple copies of their genetic information face higher extinction rates than their relatives, researchers report in Science magazine.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Into the (mis)fold: a diagnostic tool for proteins

(PhysOrg.com) -- Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, currently affecting more than 35 million people worldwide. Although many genetic and hereditary factors are thought to contribute ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mutated gene found in dog disease the same in humans, researchers find

University of Missouri researchers believe both man and animal will benefit from their discovery that the same gene mutation found in Tibetan Terrier dogs can also be found in a fatal human neurological disorder ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Universal detector made of DNA building blocks

(PhysOrg.com) -- A method for detecting such diverse substances as antibiotics, narcotics and explosives - a universal detector, so to speak - has been developed by German researchers at the Max Planck Institute ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bacteria poison themselves from within

(PhysOrg.com) -- The research group led by Anton Meinhart at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg has shown that proteins from the zeta toxin group trigger a self-destructive mechanism ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Lifestyle affects life expectancy more than genetics

How long your parents lived does not affect how long you will live. Instead it is how you live your life that determines how old you will get, reveals research from the University of Gothenburg recently published in the Journal of ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Altered gene protects some African-Americans from coronary artery disease

A team of scientists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere has discovered that a single alteration in the genetic code of about a fourth of African-Americans helps protect them from coronary artery disease, the leading cause of ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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